Another sign of the recession: Ira Glass recently reported on This American Life that there's a surprising increase of people going to the dentist with broken teeth these days. Apparently there's plenty of grinding, gnashing and serious worry going on--another indication of Saturn-ruled Capricorn's influence on Pluto. Saturn rules teeth and worry, bones and fear. My teeth … [Read more...]
The gods speak to us in many ways--through soaring hawks, sudden rainbows, and viral YouTube videos. No doubt it was Venus who sent us Susan Boyle. At the tail end of her retrograde, Venus had just backed from Aries into Pisces when Susan Boyle walked awkwardly across the "Britain's Got Talent" stage, a frumpy middle-aged woman with bushy eyebrows and a dated cocktail dress … [Read more...]
I have a history of painful separations with this particular Venus retrograde. Every eight years she retrogrades in Aries through my 8th house of births and deaths. First there was the loss of a husband, then friends, my community--and now, my partner had left to take a job in California. His move is a good one and we keep in touch almost daily through Skype. Still his absence … [Read more...]
Whenever some poor soul guns down several innocents, and the news cameras descend so that we might watch hour after hour of some town's misery, I go to my ephemeris to see which planetary culprit has brought us this story. Yesterday in Binghamton, when Jiverly Wong turned his powerlessness into rage and killed 13 people and himself, Mars opposed Saturn and Pluto--planet of … [Read more...]
I'm happy to hear the war on terror is over. At least, the Obama administration will no longer be using that phrase, favoring the cool and abstract "Overseas Contingency Operation" instead. The signature phrase of the Bush administration, "War on Terror" translates in astro-speak to a Mars Pluto opposition. Any astrologer will tell you that Mars/Pluto oppositions are awful. … [Read more...]
